Imperfectly

Examples

• The crust of the earth is a vast museum; but the natural collections have been imperfectly made, and only at long intervals of time. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I am imperfectly consoled for this disappointment by the sacred pledge, the perished flower. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In January of 1884, Wroblewski confirmed the liquefaction of hydrogen, which had been imperfectly accomplished by Cailletet before. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This seemed to be true, so long as a genus was imperfectly known, and its species were founded upon a few specimens, that is to say, were provisional. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There was a sound behind them, as of an imperfectly suppressed chuckle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Chinese history is still very imperfectly known to European students, and our accounts of the early records are particularly unsatisfactory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He stood wedged in the forum, imperfectly hearing a distant speaker. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Harmoon's,' repeated Mr Rokesmith, seeming to have caught the sound imperfectly, 'Harmarn's. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But this imperfectly taught woman, whose phrases and habits were an odd patchwork, had a loyal spirit within her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr. Guppy saw us to the door with the air of one who was either imperfectly awake or walking in his sleep; and we left him there, staring. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Betteredge gave his imperfectly-pointed pencil a preliminary lick with his tongue. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In regard to the sterility of hybrids, in which the sexual elements are imperfectly developed, the case is somewhat different. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The one is a finished work which received the last touches of the author: the other is imperfectly executed, and apparently unfinished. Plato. The Republic.
• Uncouth and clumsy doors, windows and blinds, were framed on the simplest utilitarian basis, and a scanty supply of rude hand-made furniture imperfectly filled the simple wants of the home. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Islam had made millions of converts, and had digested those millions very imperfectly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have described very imperfectly a few of the battles and skirmishes that took place during this time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is not my business to relate it imperfectly, on hearsay evidence. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She had read Miss Crawford's note only once, and how to reply to anything so imperfectly understood was most distressing. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The largest of the two pirate ships was commanded by a Japanese captain, who spoke a little Dutch, but very imperfectly. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Mr. Bruff himself was looking eagerly through a crevice left in the imperfectly-drawn curtains of the bed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I have put these considerations to you, my dear Sir, very feebly and imperfectly, but I ask you to think of them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This is a very important subject, most imperfectly understood, and no doubt wholly different classes of facts may be here easily confounded together. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• You are perfectly pleasant; I am imperfectly pleasant; then, if I never allude to an unpleasant matter, how much less should you! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Those were the days of pen and ink and the imperfectly developed typewriter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The shaded light showed Miss Keeldar's form but imperfectly; yet it revealed her in elegant attire. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yet how could we congratulate ourselves on any event thus imperfectly fulfilled? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This is not true, as they are imperfectly cut. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They were imperfectly performed, as he was not very expert; but, being on a subject quite new to me, they equally surprised and pleased me. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But darkness came on fast, and the paths of the wood seemed but imperfectly known to the marauders. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You converse imperfectly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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